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Ok, so far we have mixed reviews. I'm hearing we'd like some kind of thread scoring, but we don't like the karma feature.

Should I put up a poll? Should I simply get rid of it? This is an open ended feature.

We can name it activity, or whatever and we can change the voting method, could be anything from agree/disagree, yay/nay, stars/brownies, etc. We can have both be positive just different, they do not have to contrast, there does not even have to be a negative vote. Could be anything.

Do we hate the feature altogether, do we just want to change the name but let the votes into agree/disagree? If we changed the name from Karma to Activity, like Arya suggested, would this make the feature more useful?

Thanks for all your input.Ogyen.

Well I noticed some boards will have, "was this statement helpful?" and just a "yes or no" or a thumbs up or down. Which would have less on the impact of people "needing practice".

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-Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.-Gautama Buddha

The way it's set up you can't differentiate the yes/no anyway, unless we want to... where we can see all the breakdown of yes and no votes. I'd personally prefer just having totals, but this is not the site of Ogyen either. LOL...

What Makes an Elder? :A head of gray hairs doesn't mean one's an elder. Advanced in years, one's called an old fool.But one in whom there is truth, restraint, rectitude, gentleness,self-control, he's called an elder, his impurities disgorged, enlightened.-Dhammpada, 19, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

I am not a huge fan of the idea. We have the ability to post a response that says "great post", and there are even emoticons for that:

Some of us are stable enough in our not-selves to not be concerned with our popularity rating, in which case the tool does not serve a point. Some of us are really struggling to understand our identity and our role in this universe, and can become very consumed with our popularity rating, in which case this feature would be unhelpful or unwholesome. Me- I vacillate between these two poles, depending on the time of the day, so i know it would be best for me to ignore the rating.

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Ok, so far we have mixed reviews. I'm hearing we'd like some kind of thread scoring, but we don't like the karma feature.

Should I put up a poll? Should I simply get rid of it? This is an open ended feature.

We can name it activity, or whatever and we can change the voting method, could be anything from agree/disagree, yay/nay, stars/brownies, etc. We can have both be positive just different, they do not have to contrast, there does not even have to be a negative vote. Could be anything.

Do we hate the feature altogether, do we just want to change the name but let the votes into agree/disagree? If we changed the name from Karma to Activity, like Arya suggested, would this make the feature more useful?

I am not a huge fan of the idea. We have the ability to post a response that says "great post", and there are even emoticons for that:

Some of us are stable enough in our not-selves to not be concerned with our popularity rating, in which case the tool does not serve a point. Some of us are really struggling to understand our identity and our role in this universe, and can become very consumed with our popularity rating, in which case this feature would be unhelpful or unwholesome. Me- I vacillate between these two poles, depending on the time of the day, so i know it would be best for me to ignore the rating.

I have been swayed by your arguments. I'm going to vote 'no' and keep relying on the emoticon commentary system.

Warning: I'm enough of a fundamentalist Tibet style Buddhist to believe that for the last 1,000 years Tibet has produced a handful of enlightened masters in every generation. I do not ask that YOU believe it, but it will greatly simplify conversations if you understand that about me. Thanks.

By the way... here in Portland, both flying monkeys and rolling donuts are a serious problem. A buddy of mine was run over by a runaway rolling donut, needed stitches. And flying monkey attacks are becoming an almost daily thing. The more humans encroach upon their habitat, the more the flying monkeys retaliate.